On cspan2. The reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program. Femas perspective. All members will have five days for extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Thank you for appearing today for the second hearing for the housing subcommittee for the 118th congress. Fema plays a vital road through the Disaster Recovery efforts and today well explore the National Flood Insurance Program which existed over 50 years and until recently has operated in the same manner and relied on the same outdated tools since its creation and i just applaud the progress that youre making as flooding in the United States is a significant and costly problem for coastal and inland residents. Unfortunately, theres only one provider for nearly all Flood Insurance and the governmentbacked program which sells in a 93 to 95 of all rest tension Flood Insurance in the country. Thats not just a bad idea from the perspective of
Foundation for research on equal opportunity. Gentlemen, welcome to both of you. Tell us a bit about the foundation for research on equal opportunities. Guest its a nonprofit nonpartisan think tank focused on using marketbased solutions to lower the costofliving for everyday americans. Host in the center for American Progress . Guest we are a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on building things like inclusive economy, tackling racial injustice, climate change, and of course, education. Host here is the article from nbc news, Biden Announces New plans for Student Debt Relief for millions. Millions. This is the second attempt, so whats different this time . Guest the plan this time, plan b, focuses on categories of borrowers unlike the broadbased options the president first pursued and announced in 2022. Or at least that was proposed. This time, you know, the first group of borrowers centers on those who have been paying interest or have been paying more than what they took out because of in
Comments live. Then Alex Rouhandeh talks about news of the day on capitol hill, including the delay by House Republicans and bringing articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandra Mayorkas to the senate. And then jared bass with the center for American Progress and Christian Cooper of the foundation for research on equal opportunity to talk about President Bidens revised student loan forgiveness plan. Also, lisa curtis, Program Director for the indo pacific on the japanese Prime Ministers u. S. Visit, and the Security Alliance between the two countries in the face of threats from china. Washington journal starts now. Host good morning. Wednesday, april 10. Yesterday, the Arizona Supreme Court imposed a near total ban on abortion, citing an 1864 law that forbids the procedure except his ailing mothers life. It also punishes providers with six years of prison time. The first halfhour, we will get your reaction to the arizona ruling. Publicans, 202 7488001. Republi
For continuance until july 14, 2016, item 2 south van ness 26 street is proposed for continuance until july 21st 2016 items 3 ab for cases pears street conditional use authorization and various are proposed for indefinite continuance commissioners further on our agenda in under the discretionary review calendar im pleased to announce that case at 21st street discretionary review has been withdrawn the dr application has been withdrawn i have no other items and i have no speaker cards. Are there any speakers for the continuance as proposed . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner wu move to continue items 1, 2, and 1926 a thank you, commissioners on that motion to continue commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner wu and commissioner Vice President richards so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and director rahaim could you be so kind as the acting Zoning Administrator continue the variance yes. Ill continue the va
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